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ONG ago, the mice
held a general
council to con-
sider what meas-
ures they could take to outwit
their common enemy, the Cat.
Some said this, and some said
"""^~~"~~^ that ; but at last a young mouse
got up and said he had a proposal to make,
which he thought would meet the case. ''^ You
will all agree," said he, ''that our chief danger
consists in the sly and treacherous manner in
which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we
could receive some signal of her approach, we
could easily escape from her. I venture, there-
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fore, to propose that a small
bell be procured, and attached
by a ribbon round the neck of
the Cat. By this means we
should always know when she
was about, and could easily
retire while she was in the
neighborhood,"
This proposal met with gen-
eral applause, until an old
mouse got up and said : ' ' That is
all very well, but who is to bell
the Cat?" The mice looked at
one another and nobody spoke.
Then the old mouse said :
*' Jt is eas2 to propose
impossible remedies."
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Very well,
Once when a Lion was
asleep a little Mouse began
running up and down upon
him ; this soon wakened
the Lion, who placed his
huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws
to swallow him. "Pardon, O King,'* cned
the little Mouse ; ' * forgive me this time, I
shall never forget it ; who knows but what I
may be able to do you a turn some of these
days ? ' ' The Lion was so tirVled at the idea
of the Mouse being able .leip him, that he
lifted up his paw and let i. '^ Some time
after the Lion was caught i ^ trap, and the
hunters, who desired to can nii alive to the
King, tied him to a tree wi ^e they went in
search of a wagon to carry him on. Just
then the little Mouse happened to pass by,
and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion
was, went up to him and soon gnawed away
the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts.
"Was I not right? ", said the little Mouse.
KID was perched up on the top
of a house, and looking down
saw a Wolf passing under him.
Immediately he began to revile
and attack his enemy. '' Murderer and thief,"
he cried, ''what do you here near honest folks'
houses? How dare you make an appearance
where your vile deeds are known ? ' '
"Curse away, my young friend," said the
Wolf.
"Jt is easg to be brace from a safe bistance/*
COUNTRYMAN'S son by acci^
dent trod upon a Serpent's tail,
which turned and bit him so that
he died. The father in a rage
got his axe, and pursuing the Serpent cut
off part of its tail. So the Serpent in revenge
began stinging several of the Farmer's cattle
and caused him severe loss. Well, the Farmer
thought it best to make it up with the Serpent,
and brought food and honey to the mouth
of its lair, and said to it: "Let's forget
and forgive ; perhaps you were right to punish
my son, and take vengeance on my cattle,
but surely I was right in trying to revenge
PEACOCK once placed a petition
before Juno desiring to have the
voice of a nightingale in addition
to his other attractions; but Juno
refused his request. When he persisted, and
pointed out that he was her favorite bird, she
said:
*' Be content tuitl) pour iot ; one cannot be
first in etJergtljing/'
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